SES announced its Board of Directors has appointed Elisabeth (Lisa) Pataki as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective 16 June 2025.

Lisa is a progressive finance executive with over 20 years of experience at various publicly listed multi-national aerospace and defence companies with strong background in company transformation and investment strategies.

She will succeed Sandeep Jalan who has been SES’s CFO since May 2020.

The SES Board acknowledges Sandeep’s contribution to SES and wishes him success in future endeavours.

Lisa will work closely with Sandeep to ensure a smooth handover before he leaves on 31 July 2025.

Lisa joins SES from Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Company, where she helped expand profitability through streamlining operations and prioritising capital investments for long-term growth.

As Group CFO for the Comet Group from 2020-2023, she drove EBITDA margin expansion of over 5 percentage points.

In her 10-year progressive career (2005-2015) across RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies Corporation), she held multiple finance roles and led the financial integration of Applied Signal Technologies, one of Raytheon’s largest acquisitions in 2011.

Adel Al-Saleh, CEO of SES We are pleased to welcome Lisa as our new CFO. Lisa has extensive experience in the aerospace and defence ecosystem and has completed several successful M&A finance integrations. Moreover, her ability to develop financial strategies that prioritise operational focus, efficiency, and profitable investments will strengthen SES’s Leadership Team, helping SES achieve our mission of being a leading satellite player

Sandeep Jalan, CFO of SES I am proud of the strides we have made during the past years, and I will continue to cheer SES’s progress in the industry